Ciudad Piar is a town in the state of
Bolívar,
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
,
about south of
Ciudad Bolívar
Ciudad Bolívar (; Spanish for "Bolivar City"), formerly known as Angostura and St. Thomas de Guyana, is the capital of Venezuela's southeastern Bolívar, Venezuela, Bolívar State. It lies at the spot where the Orinoco River narrows to about ...
, but a longer by road. The town is in the eastern foothills of
Cerro Bolivar, a mountain that is being mined for iron ore, and just inland from the huge
Embalse de Guri reservoir. It is the
administrative seat
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.
In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lux ...
for
Angostura Municipality. It is primarily a mining town.
In 2010 the Jesús Rivero Workers' Bolivarian University opened in Ciudad Piar.
Notes and references
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Populated places in Bolívar (state)